Secret Identity

So here is my brief story...

I was once a roller blader/aggresive skater...

nope this is not me, but all my photos are from the 90's and on actual film.

So after many tricks and grinds and jumps and falls... the damage was done.

and this is what my right foot looks like now...

after this I had to quit skating... this made me mad, then I got sad, then I just got depressed.  I drank, alot... and then I ate alot.  And then much to my surprise I got fat! And stayed fat...

That's me and my son Reece. 

So my initial surgery was in 1997.  10 years later 2007 it was still hurting me after surgery. I thought it just normal, surgical arthritis or something.  Well after starting working as an ER nurse one of our docs told me it should't still be hurting so I went to an ortho and got the good news.  The right side of my foot had a bone fusion that had failed and the hardware on that side was loose.  So not only were my screws twisting in the bone, the joint there has no cartiledge and is rough bone on bone.

I went into get the plate and screws removed and have a revision that ended up being a bunch of bone chunks having to be ground out with the promise that I would need another fusion later.

This is were the hero's journey starts.  I decided to start running becasue the worst I figured would happen was the surgery that was already in my future.

I started the Bridge Trolls as a way to motivate myself.  

since I live in charleston SC home of the Cooper River Bridge Run a local 10K with    

about 40,000 participants.  It was a team of one, a gang with one member, my motivation for myself. And I ran

And I ran and I found that my foot felt better. I felt better. 

And somewhere in the middle of all this my knee got twisted and torn while working in the ER and several months and a surgery later I was back running. 

Of course with was just before I registered for the Disney marathon and the Blueridge Parkway Marathon.  

Surgery canceled Disney and I canceled Blueridge because I wanted to ere on the side of caution.  Pete Eshlam the race director was awesome and rolled my registration over to this year. 

Due to icy winter and my motivation failing me I down traded to the half this year. 

I really want to do the last chance 50k this winter.  I am drawn to ultras because of the community and the attitude.  It seems to be the only community in running where slow, long, trudged miles are praised.  

So that's a quick running biography of me.  So when you see me running slow, remember my right foot is in shambles, my left knee is shot, I have asthma, I'm fat, and I suffer from mild depression so my doubt shoulder angel is about the size of Godzilla. 

And that's why I love running because I'm not supposed to be able to do it!  Actually my shoulder angel is more of a Mechgodzilla with all my other surgeries.

Thanks for reading. More to come